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“It takes time, focus, and dedication to achieve great things.”
― 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter
― 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter
“Remember, you're the sum of your peer group. If you associate with people who have no ambition and spend all their time getting high and playing video games, then that's what you're going to become. This happens because we are a tribal species. Your standards will rise or fall to match the people you associate with.”
― Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day
― Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day
“Patience and practice are what will get me there. This”
― Write to Market: Deliver a Book that Sells
― Write to Market: Deliver a Book that Sells
“early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise'.”
― Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day
― Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day
“If, on the other hand, you decide you're a best-selling author, then your mind will subtly reinforce that. It will begin noticing the things that will help you achieve that goal, and it will keep doing so until your goal is a reality. Your”
― Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day
― Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day
“We didn’t even find Saturn until Galileo in the sixteen hundreds.”
― No Such Thing as Werewolves
― No Such Thing as Werewolves
“If you want to succeed as an author you need to work your ass off. Not only do you need to work, but you need to work intelligently. That means reading a LOT. You need to read in every genre, and you most especially need to read the genre you want to write.”
― Write to Market: Deliver a Book that Sells
― Write to Market: Deliver a Book that Sells
“Only it wasn’t dead. Somehow the vessel’s last captain, mighty Kemet, his great-great-grandson, a mere hatchling, had found a way to fool them all.”
― Dying World
― Dying World
“There are no gender specific norms around initiating courtship within our culture. The more potent the gift, the more potent the interest, it is said.”
― Hatchling
― Hatchling
“She looked forward to instructing them on the folly of rushing an elder Wyrm in an enclosed space.”
― Hatchling
― Hatchling
“They’d been dispatched here, given four old Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopters—the type that had been mothballed back in the 1980s after serving since the Vietnam War.”
― No Such Thing as Werewolves
― No Such Thing as Werewolves
“Give basic orders that people were going to do anyway, and they’d get used to following you.”
― Dying World
― Dying World
“How does that help?" Lena asked, whiskers twitching as she cocked her head. "Aluki and Lena are still on the ship.”
― Hold The Line
― Hold The Line
“They brought their curious weapons to bear, these guns. Such weapons allowed the unblooded to think of themselves as warriors, but the weapons conveyed neither discipline nor skill.”
― The Deathless Quadrilogy
― The Deathless Quadrilogy
“My father gave out compliments like he only had three left and they were all spoken for by someone better than your sorry ass.”
― Hatchling
― Hatchling
“We do not always like growth. It is messy and painful, but ultimately what we need.”
― Hatchling
― Hatchling
“The ship is a beacon and will set your course when you sail upon time. You will return the light of the past to the present, and offer the present to the past as recompense. A life restored, a willing life given in balance.”
― Hatchling
― Hatchling
“Toastmasters is a public speaking organization”
― 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter
― 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter
“Marketing is, in essence, figuring out who wants to buy what you’re selling, then making sure they’re aware it exists. I very quickly realized that marketing boiled down to three basic goals that fed into each other:”
― Launch to Market: Easy Marketing For Authors
― Launch to Market: Easy Marketing For Authors
“Dryker doesn't seem surprised, because he's old and wise and stuff. He also has a beard, but his beard is white so we know he's not a villain. Lena”
― Void Wraith
― Void Wraith
“Somewhere back on Kemet I’d made a choice to be a different guy. A guy who built and helped, not consumed and burdened. I guess maybe that was what becoming an adult meant. Maybe that was why my dad was proud. I’d finally made the conscious choice to become a man.”
― Hatchling
― Hatchling
“This first micro sprint is also going to generate a concept you’ll see used throughout this book. The idea of Words Per Hour. Since your micro sprint was five minutes, multiply the total by 12. That’s your WPH, for a micro sprint.”
― 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter
― 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter
“Which made him focus instead on the present, to prevent dealing with bullshit emotions. Emotions were stupid.”
― War Mage
― War Mage
“The goal of a writing sprint is to get you into the flow state, where your brain will naturally focus on an activity you are good at to the exclusion of all else.”
― 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter
― 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter
“There’s nothing I can do for him.” She shook her head sadly. “You have no idea how precious every seat is. They’re talking about abandoning the armory because there simply aren’t enough ships. We’re saving the best and brightest. I will always treasure my time with your father, and we made something wonderful together, but he is neither of those things, Jer.”
― Dying World
― Dying World
